odd job

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A spell of temporary employment.
    — They believe that when a partnership works as well as theirs has, you shouldn't analyze it too much. Success came in the midforties when Paramount hired them for the musical equivalent of odd jobs.
  2. A task of an incidental, unspecialized nature.
    — I like doing odd jobs around the house.
动词 v.
  1. Alternative form of odd-job. alt-of,alternative
    — "I hope, sir," pleaded the abashed Mr. Cruncher, "that a gentleman like yourself wot I've had the honour of odd jobbing till I'm grey at it, would think twice about harming of me, even if it wos so—I don't say it is, but even if it wos."

词形变化

odd jobs plural odd-job alternative oddjob alternative odd jobs present,singular,third-person odd jobbing participle,present odd jobbed participle,past odd jobbed past odd-job alternative oddjob alternative
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